METHODIST SNYOD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12649, 17 December 1910, Page 7

METHODIST SNYOD.

u-*er Press Association.) WELLINGTON, December 15. At the district Methodist Synod it was decided that a resolution of last conference placing grants for Maori .Missions on the same footing as the European department ~. should be rescinded ; that no increase in tho cost of Maori work should be made without the expressed sanction' of the conference; ihat all grants to circuits and home' ■ mission stations •be made j with a vie\v to ' enabling them !to pay their - missionaries (if married) not less than £120 in addition" to a furnished house and (if single) rot less than £100, and circuits to pay their ministers not less than £180 and probationers £120. Satisfaction was expressed at the ■report, of the-Committee of the New Zealand "Methodist Times." The new venture in journalism has proved suceMrefu 1. The Rev. R. L. Hudson, the Julitor, was -warmly commended for this work. In view of his prospective absence it was recommended that an neting-edihor be appointed for next year. A resolution was adopted unanimously expressing thankfulness to Grod for the advance of the cause of right: .©ouatress us indicated by the temperance^ legislation-winch has been placed upon the Statute Book of the Dominion, and the quickening of the public conscience'

in reference to the evils of gambling, at the same time " pledging ourselves to renewed and increased efforts to secure the settlement of the liquor question by a democratic majority, the abolition or the totalisator, and every other form of gambling. We urge our people to no all in their power to counteract the growing evil of Sabbath desecration Recognising the importance of .bible teaching in the development of rational character, we express otrf conviction that there should be some definite form of Bible teaching in connection with our educational system The next Synod will be "held at Napier.